Who Are All These People in the Archive?

[Bad213Boy]

I know this game is old but I never really got in to the whole Warhammer lore. I was always into DnD. I always felt that learning the DnD lore was enough to keep me interested. I've been playing the Dawn of War series lately and have noticed that in Dark Crusade, each province of land has an Archive with some specific message. These messages seem so random. Most of the people they're referring to in these messages don't even have bio's or anything for that matter. I've tried using Warhammer Wiki and Lexicanum but I couldn't find anything on these people.

I know there are Dawn of War novels, but I haven't gotten them yet. Are these people in the novels or something? I feel like I'm missing something when reading these archives. There's a few Archives that talk about a Magos Exploratory team to recover lost artifacts. Where did these messages come from? When did they happen? Are they happening now while I play the game or what?

Don't you think Gameworks, or whom ever owns the Warhammer franchise, should have used better back stories for these archives?

[Weavern]

Not being a 40k buff myself I am unsure. However nearly everything that got put into dow likely had a GW stamp of approval given how protective they are over their universe and mythos. I'll bump this over to backstory & fluff after a day or so assuming no one here has a better answer. Likely someone there will have a more comprehensive understanding of 40k to give a better answer.

[Bad213Boy]

Thx man. It's a great game. Just wish there was more back story.

[Bad213Boy]

Any news?

[Slash]

I would assume that some of the stuff in the archives were simply made up writers to add some fluff and background to each province in Dark Crusade.
I guess its to give you an understanding that the provinces you're fighting for isn't just place with dirt, but has some sort of significance due to its history.

I'm not sure how relevant they are suppose to be to the overall story of the game, seeing how it's been six years since I've played; however, IIRC I do remember some of the stuff relates to the previous games and books related to the Dawn of War franchise.

Hope that helps.

[Weavern]

Sorry Bad213Boy, forgot about this thread with the summer sale! WIll move it now.

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[fuggles]

What Slash said, but also a lot of it was to do with creating the Blood Ravens such as the hints of the possible links to...another chapter. Relic invented the Blood Ravens and the dawn of war books are just awful. The problem with the metamap campaign, more so in SS is that you have to create a viable reason why each force wants to fight, which gets a bit...tenuous, so there are no massive overarching stories as such beyond the blood ravens whose story starts in DoW1 and finishes in DoW 2 - retribution.

[Rukoth]

Most of the things produced for Dawn of War: Dark Crusade and SS were created specifically for those games with as someone else said here a "GameWorks" stamp of approval. The only bits of lore in the game that have anything to do with lore outside of those games though are the Blood Ravens back story and also how that gigantic gun of doom in the Imperial Guard Stronghold got there and what Titan it used to be attached to (read Mechanicum in the Horus Heresy Series to see what I mean") but other then those Tie ins into the larger WH40k universe Kronos wasn't ever featured nor has been featured in warhammer novels nor even mentioned. Most was just fluff generated for the sake of the game. And since the 40k universe is so epic in scale, it is able to work.

[Elerium]

A lot of the stuff in DC's territory selection screen was if I recall (being a long time since I played DC's campaign) stuff written up by civilian militia, soldiers, one was from Tomas Macabee (who was converted into the Necron's Pariah mouthpiece), etc etc. It just serves to create a once living world that gives interesting backstory behind the provinces you're fighting in (e.g. "So thaaaat's how Tomas became a Pariah, because he spent too much time around the archeological sites and happened to have the Pariah gene..")